Burgess, Don E., Tabitha A. Zimmerman, Marshall T. Wise, Sheng-Gang Li, David C. Randall, and David R. Brown. Low-frequency renal sympathetic nerve activity, arterial BP, stationary ‘‘1/f noise,’’ and the baroreflex. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R894–R903, 1999.—The object of this study is to quantify the very low frequency (i.e., ,0.1 Hz) interactions between...

Thrasher, Terry N., Craig R. Keenan, and David J. Ramsay. Cardiovascular afferent signals and drinking in response to hypotension in dogs. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R795–R801, 1999.— Arterial hypotension stimulates increases in plasma arginine vasopressin (AVP), plasma renin activity (PRA), and water intake in conscious dogs. We have previously reported tha...

Wu, Xiao Chun, Peter J. Harris, and Edward J. Johns. Nitric oxide and renal nerve-mediated proximal tubular reabsorption in normotensive and hypertensive rats. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Renal Physiol. 46): F560–F566, 1999.—In Inactin-anesthetized Wistar rats with an intact renal innervation, intratubular nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME, 1024 M) increased proximal fluid uptake (Jva, at 2.47 6 0...

Pinsky, David J., Walif Aji, Matthias Szabolcs, Eleni S. Athan, Youping Liu, Yi Ming Yang, Richard P. Kline, Kim E. Olson, and Paul J. Cannon. Nitric oxide triggers programmed cell death (apoptosis) of adult rat ventricular myocytes in culture. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H1189–H1199, 1999.—Excessive nitric oxide (NO) production within the heart is implicated in the pathogene...

Nagayama, Takahiro, Takayuki Matsumoto, Makoto Yoshida, Mizue Suzuki-Kusaba, Hiroaki Hisa, Tomohiko Kimura, and Susumu Satoh. Role of cholinergic receptors in adrenal catecholamine secretion in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1057–R1062, 1999.—We investigated the role of nicotinic and muscarinic receptors in secretion of catechol...

Boutellier, Sandra, Thomas A. Lutz, Matthias Volkert, and Erwin Scharrer. 2-Mercaptoacetate, an inhibitor of fatty acid oxidation, decreases the membrane potential in rat liver in vivo. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R301–R305, 1999.—In former work, intraperitoneal injection of 2-mercaptoacetate (MA), an inhibitor of fatty acid oxidation, increased food intake i...

Nelson, Dwight E., and Joseph S. Takahashi. Integration and saturation within the circadian photic entrainment pathway of hamsters. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1351–R1361, 1999.—The sensitivity of the visual pathway that subserves circadian entrainment was measured in hamsters after prior stimulation and using trains of multiple pulses. Immediately after sub...

Burness, Gary P., Scot C. Leary, Peter W. Hochachka, and Christopher D. Moyes. Allometric scaling of RNA, DNA, and enzyme levels: an intraspecific study. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1164–R1170, 1999.—The activities of oxidative and glycolytic enzymes show body size-dependent relationships across a wide variety of taxa; however, the mechanistic basis remains ...

Merrill, David C., Jeffrey L. Segar, Oliva J. McWeeny, and Jean E. Robillard. Sympathetic responses to cardiopulmonary vagal afferent stimulation during development. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H1311–H1316, 1999.—Previous work in our laboratory has demonstrated impairment of cardiopulmonary reflex control of renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) during the newborn period. T...

CHEN-LI CHENG,1,2 JIANG-CHUAN LIU,3 SUN-YRAN CHANG,2 CHENG-PING MA,2 AND WILLIAM C. DE GROAT4 1Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 407; 2Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei 100; 3Department of Biology and Anatomy, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 100, Taiwan, Republic of China; and 4Departme...